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Mapping leisure across borders / edited by Fabio Massimo Lo Verde, Ishwar Modi and Gianna Cappello.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--Social aspects.
- Leisure.
- Leisure--Sociological aspects.
- Leisure--Philosophy.
- Leisure--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (515 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In current academic debates, leisure is increasingly defined as a discursive construction originating both from the specific meanings created by individuals, and the institutionalizing processes that legitimate certain experiences and their spatial-temporal conditions as ""leisure"". As a result of social construction and the different social conditions existing at a certain historical moment in different societies, the borders among the various aspects of leisure are becoming more and more blu...
- Contents:
- Part I. Frames
- Part II. Leisure across media technologies
- Part III. Leisure across gender, age and ethnicity
- Part IV. Leisure across sport, body and emotion
- Part V. Leisure across legal and illegal
- Part VI. Leisure across individual and collective spheres, social stratification and public policies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 21, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5957-5
- OCLC:
- 879026140
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